Samuel bbetzfield



(No Model.)

S. BRBTZPIELD.

PLAYING CARD.

No. 388,115. Patented Aug. 21, 1888.

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WITNESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL BRETZFIELD,

OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PLAYING-CARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,115, dated August 21, 1888.

Application filed March 9, 1888.

To all whom it 12mg concern..-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL BRETZFIELD, of the city of New York,in the county of New York, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Playing-Cards, of which the following is a specification.

Card-players very frequently do not have game chips or markers handy for keeping record of the game and resort to various devices to make such chips.

The object of my invention is to provide packs of cards with additional cards having perforated lines, along which said cards can conveniently be broken into small pieces which can be used as chips.

The invention consists in a card-package composed of a pack of ordinary playingcards and a series of cards provided with perforated lines forming fields or spaces.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a face view of one of my improved markingcards. Fig. 2 is a face view of the card, some of the chips being broken out. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of a pack of cards containing my improved marking-cards.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The card A, which has the shape of an ordinary playing-card, is made of the same ma terial and has the design of the backs of ordinary playingcards on both faces, but in contradistinction to ordinary cards, which have Serial No. 266.651. (No model.)

an ornament on one side and a picture or spots on the other side. The card A is provided with a longitudinal perforated central line, a, and a series of equidistant transverse perforated lines,b,dividing the card into a se ries of spaces or fields, B. The card can be bent, broken, or torn along the perforated lines to produce a number game checks or chips, each field B forming one check or chip, which can be used in the usual manner.

The surfaces of the different markingcards have different colors-for instance, three are red, two blue, and one white-so that checks of different values can readily be obtained. The marking-cards can be mixed with the ordinary playing-cards D, but are preferably packed together, adjacent to the ordinary cards in the same package or wrapper, O, as shown in Fig. 3.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A card-package consisting of a pack of ordinary playing-cards and a series of cards provided with perforated lines forming fields or spaces, substantially as herein shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SAML. BRETZFIELD.

Witnesses:

OSCAR F. GUNZ, S. VAN ZANDT. 

